Contact print of Bender on the mound at Shibe Park in Philadelphia in 1910. Unusual ground level shot looking up at Bender.

Perhaps Bender’s best known photo. This image was shot by Charles Conlon and was used for numerous card issues such as the T206 “No Trees” and T5 Pinkerton cabinet. Analysis of the scoreboard in the expanded image above determines this photo was taken on July 3,…

Bender warms up. Note the photographer with the camera on his knee photographing Bender. This pose was used on the Baseball Bats card.

This photo show a dapper young Bender in a cabinet photo from a Carlisle, PA studio. Bender attended college there and this photo may well be earlier than 1904. There is also a possibility that the signature on back is an early Bender signature.

Chief Bender just before game 5 of the 1911 World Series at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. Bender won the game and the A’s went on to defeat the New York Giants in the series to claim the World Championship. Graig Kreindler, the noted artist, used…

Bain captures the Philadelphia Athletics coming on the field at the Polo Grounds in New York for the first game of the World Series in which they would ultimately prevail and repeat as World Champions. The elephant sweaters are one of the iconic uniform pieces…